[3][4] Dodgeball was founded in 2000 by New York University students Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert.

The company was acquired by Google in 2005 and Crowley and Rainert hired,[5] which led to the coinage of the term acquihire.

[6] After leaving Google, Crowley created a similar service known as Foursquare with the help of Naveen Selvadurai.

Dodgeball was available for the cities of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis–St.

[8] In January 2009, Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering at Google, announced that the company would "discontinue Dodgeball.com in the next couple of months, after which this service will no longer be available.

[4] Google Latitude was compatible with most devices running iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian S60.

[15][16] Initially Google stated on the Latitude page that it would be available for Java ME phones,[citation needed] but this claim was later removed from the site.

OwnTracks is a free and open-source software package for tracking people, without relying on third party cloud services.